History of World Societies, Concise, Combined Volume uses a regional presentation of material alongside a variety primary sources to help you learn social history while building your own historical thinking skills.

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Table of Contents

The Combined Volume includes all chapters. Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16.Volume 2 includes Chapters 16-33.

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, quizzes for sources and features, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader Sources for World Societies, and quizzes for each of the documents in the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

Preface

Versions and Supplements

Maps, Figures, and Tables

Special Features

1. The Earliest Human Societies, to 2500 B.C.E.

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY LaunchPad

Evolution and Migration

Understanding the Early Human Past

Hominid Evolution

Homo Sapiens, "Thinking Humans"

Migration and Differentiation

Later Paleolithic Society, ca. 200,000–9000 B.C.E.

Foraging for Food

Family and Kinship Relationships

Cultural Creations and Spirituality

The Development of Agriculture in the Neolithic Era, ca. 9000 B.C.E.

The Development of Horticulture

Animal Domestication and the Rise of Pastoralism

Agriculture

Neolithic Society

Social Hierarchies and Slavery

Gender Hierarchies and Inheritance

Trade and Cross-Cultural Connections

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve LaunchPad

REVIEW AND EXPLORE

Chapter 1 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Mapping the Past Human Migration in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras

Documents from Sources for World Societies, Chapter 2 Introduction to the Documents

Document 2-1: A Mesopotamian Quest for Immortality, From The Epic of Gilgamesh, ca. 2700-2500 B.C.E. Quiz for Document 2-1 LaunchPadDocument 2-2: Law and Order in Ancient Babylonia, Hammurabi, Hammurabi’s Code: Laws on Society and Family Life, ca. 1800 B.C.E., Quiz for Document 2-2 LaunchPadDocument 2-3: Moses Leads the Hebrews from Egypt, Book of Exodus, ca. 950-450 B.C.E. Quiz for Document 2-3 LaunchPadVIEWPOINTS: Imperial Propaganda in the Ancient near East

Global Viewpoints The Inglorious Side of War in the Book of Songs and the Patirruppattu

Quiz for Global Viewpoints LaunchPad

Individuals in Society Lord Mengchang

Quiz for Individuals in Society LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Ideas About the Divine Realm LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence The Teachings of Confucius

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Inscribed Bamboo Slips LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Documents from Sources for World Societies, Chapter 4 Introduction to the Documents

Document 4-1: Detail of Ritual Vase known as the Tigress, ca. 1200 B.C.E Quiz for Document 4-1 LaunchPadDocument 4-2: Confucius on Kingship, From Book of Documents, ca. 900-100 B.C.E. Quiz for Document 4-2 LaunchPadVIEWPOINTS: Philosophical Responses to Social and Political Disorder

Document 10-4: Leo Africanus, From The History and Description of Africa, 1526, Quiz for Document 10-4 LaunchPadDocument 10-5: A History of West Africa by West Africans, From Epic of Sundiata, ca. 1250 Quiz for Document 10-5 LaunchPadComparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 10 LaunchPad

11. The Americas, 3200 B.C.E.–1500 C.E.

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY LaunchPad

Societies of the Americas in a Global Context

Trade and Technology

Settlement and Environment

Ancient Societies

Olmec Agriculture, Technology, and Religion

Hohokam, Hopewell, and Mississippian Societies

Kinship and Ancestors in the Andes

The Incas

The Inca Model of Empire

Inca Imperial Expansion

Imperial Needs and Obligations

The Maya and Teotihuacan

Maya Agriculture and Trade

Maya Science and Religion

Teotihuacan and the Toltecs

The Aztec Empire

The Mexica: From Vassals to Masters

Life in the Aztec Empire

The Limits of the Aztec Empire

American Empires and the Encounter

The Last Day of the Aztecs

The Fall of the Incas

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve LaunchPad

REVIEW AND EXPLORE

Chapter 11 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Mapping the Past The Inca Empire, 1532

Analyzing the Evidence Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, The First New Chronicle and Good Government LaunchPad

Document 16-4: Bernal Diaz del Castillo, From The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 1568 Quiz for Document 16-4 LaunchPadDocument 16-5: The Spanish Conquest of Mexica, From The Florentine Codex, ca. 1577-1580 Quiz for Document 16-5 LaunchPadComparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 16 LaunchPad

17. The Islamic World Powers, 1300–1800

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY LaunchPad

The Turkish Ruling Houses: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

The Expansion of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire’s Use of Slaves

The Safavid Empire in Persia

The Mughal Empire in India

Cultural Flowering

The Arts

City and Palace Building

Gardens

Intellectual Advances and Religious Trends

Coffeehouses and Their Social Impact

Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule

Shifting Trade Routes and European Penetration

European Rivalry for Trade in the Indian Ocean

Merchant Networks in the Islamic Empires

From the British East India Company to the British Empire in India

Political Decline

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve LaunchPad

REVIEW AND EXPLORE

Chapter 17 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Mapping the Past The Ottoman Empire at Its Height, 1566

Individuals in Society Hürrem

Quiz for Individuals in Society LaunchPad

Global Viewpoints Mughal and French Views on Priorities for Monarchs

Quiz for Global Viewpoints LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Coffee Drinking

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Katib Chelebi on Tobacco LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Thinking Like a HistorianForced Relocation of Armenians to Persia LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Documents from Sources for World Societies, Chapter 17 Introduction to the Documents

Analyzing the Evidence Rain, Steam and Speed –– the Great Western Railway

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Mapping the Past Continental Industrialization, ca. 1850

Global Viewpoints Indian Cotton Manufacturers

Quiz for Global Viewpoints LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence The Testimony of Young Mine Workers LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Hisorian Making the Industrialized Worker LaunchPad

Documents from Sources for World Societies, Chapter 23 Introduction to the Documents

Document 23-1: Thomas Robert Malthus, From an Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798 Quiz for Document 23-1 LaunchPadVIEWPOINTS: The Realities of ManufacturingDocument 23-2: Robert Owen, From Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System, 1815

VIEWPOINTS: Race and Power in South AfricaDocument 32-2: National Party of South Africa, The National Party’s Colour Policy, 1948 Quiz for Document 32-2 LaunchPadDocument 32-3: Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Speech to the Court, 1964 Quiz for Document 32-3 LaunchPadViewpoints Comparative Questions

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than twenty books, most recently The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds and Gender in History. She is the former Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History.

Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Patricia B. Ebrey (Ph.D., Columbia University), Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, specializes in China. She has published numerous journal articles and The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, as well as numerous monographs. In 2010 she won the Shimada Prize for outstanding work of East Asian Art History for AccumulatingCulture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong.

Roger B. Beck

Roger B. Beck (Ph.D., Indiana University) is Distinguished Professor of African and twentieth-century world history at Eastern Illinois University. His publications include The History of South Africa, a translation of P. J. van der Merwe's The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony, 1657-1842, and more than a hundred articles, book chapters, and reviews. He is a former treasurer and Executive Council member of the World History Association.

Jerry Davila

Jerry Dávila (Ph.D., Brown University) is Jorge Paulo Lemann professor of Brazilian History at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Dictatorship in South America; Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, winner of the Latin Studies Association Brazil Section Book prize; and of Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945. He has served as president of the Conference on Latin American History.

Clare Haru Crowston

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) teaches at the University of Illinois, where she is currently associate professor of history. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women's History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.

John P. McKay

John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.

A brief text that takes a regional and global approach to world history while highlighting society and culture

History of World Societies, Concise, Combined Volume uses a regional presentation of material alongside a variety primary sources to help you learn social history while building your own historical thinking skills.

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Table of Contents

The Combined Volume includes all chapters. Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16.Volume 2 includes Chapters 16-33.

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, quizzes for sources and features, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader Sources for World Societies, and quizzes for each of the documents in the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

Preface

Versions and Supplements

Maps, Figures, and Tables

Special Features

1. The Earliest Human Societies, to 2500 B.C.E.

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY LaunchPad

Evolution and Migration

Understanding the Early Human Past

Hominid Evolution

Homo Sapiens, "Thinking Humans"

Migration and Differentiation

Later Paleolithic Society, ca. 200,000–9000 B.C.E.

Foraging for Food

Family and Kinship Relationships

Cultural Creations and Spirituality

The Development of Agriculture in the Neolithic Era, ca. 9000 B.C.E.

The Development of Horticulture

Animal Domestication and the Rise of Pastoralism

Agriculture

Neolithic Society

Social Hierarchies and Slavery

Gender Hierarchies and Inheritance

Trade and Cross-Cultural Connections

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve LaunchPad

REVIEW AND EXPLORE

Chapter 1 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Mapping the Past Human Migration in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras

Documents from Sources for World Societies, Chapter 2 Introduction to the Documents

Document 2-1: A Mesopotamian Quest for Immortality, From The Epic of Gilgamesh, ca. 2700-2500 B.C.E. Quiz for Document 2-1 LaunchPadDocument 2-2: Law and Order in Ancient Babylonia, Hammurabi, Hammurabi’s Code: Laws on Society and Family Life, ca. 1800 B.C.E., Quiz for Document 2-2 LaunchPadDocument 2-3: Moses Leads the Hebrews from Egypt, Book of Exodus, ca. 950-450 B.C.E. Quiz for Document 2-3 LaunchPadVIEWPOINTS: Imperial Propaganda in the Ancient near East

Global Viewpoints The Inglorious Side of War in the Book of Songs and the Patirruppattu

Quiz for Global Viewpoints LaunchPad

Individuals in Society Lord Mengchang

Quiz for Individuals in Society LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Ideas About the Divine Realm LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence The Teachings of Confucius

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Inscribed Bamboo Slips LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Documents from Sources for World Societies, Chapter 4 Introduction to the Documents

Document 4-1: Detail of Ritual Vase known as the Tigress, ca. 1200 B.C.E Quiz for Document 4-1 LaunchPadDocument 4-2: Confucius on Kingship, From Book of Documents, ca. 900-100 B.C.E. Quiz for Document 4-2 LaunchPadVIEWPOINTS: Philosophical Responses to Social and Political Disorder

Document 10-4: Leo Africanus, From The History and Description of Africa, 1526, Quiz for Document 10-4 LaunchPadDocument 10-5: A History of West Africa by West Africans, From Epic of Sundiata, ca. 1250 Quiz for Document 10-5 LaunchPadComparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 10 LaunchPad

11. The Americas, 3200 B.C.E.–1500 C.E.

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY LaunchPad

Societies of the Americas in a Global Context

Trade and Technology

Settlement and Environment

Ancient Societies

Olmec Agriculture, Technology, and Religion

Hohokam, Hopewell, and Mississippian Societies

Kinship and Ancestors in the Andes

The Incas

The Inca Model of Empire

Inca Imperial Expansion

Imperial Needs and Obligations

The Maya and Teotihuacan

Maya Agriculture and Trade

Maya Science and Religion

Teotihuacan and the Toltecs

The Aztec Empire

The Mexica: From Vassals to Masters

Life in the Aztec Empire

The Limits of the Aztec Empire

American Empires and the Encounter

The Last Day of the Aztecs

The Fall of the Incas

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve LaunchPad

REVIEW AND EXPLORE

Chapter 11 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Mapping the Past The Inca Empire, 1532

Analyzing the Evidence Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, The First New Chronicle and Good Government LaunchPad

Document 16-4: Bernal Diaz del Castillo, From The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 1568 Quiz for Document 16-4 LaunchPadDocument 16-5: The Spanish Conquest of Mexica, From The Florentine Codex, ca. 1577-1580 Quiz for Document 16-5 LaunchPadComparative Questions

Quiz for Sources of World Societies Chapter 16 LaunchPad

17. The Islamic World Powers, 1300–1800

GUIDED READING ACTIVITY LaunchPad

The Turkish Ruling Houses: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

The Expansion of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire’s Use of Slaves

The Safavid Empire in Persia

The Mughal Empire in India

Cultural Flowering

The Arts

City and Palace Building

Gardens

Intellectual Advances and Religious Trends

Coffeehouses and Their Social Impact

Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule

Shifting Trade Routes and European Penetration

European Rivalry for Trade in the Indian Ocean

Merchant Networks in the Islamic Empires

From the British East India Company to the British Empire in India

Political Decline

Chapter Summary

Connections

LearningCurve LaunchPad

REVIEW AND EXPLORE

Chapter 17 Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Mapping the Past The Ottoman Empire at Its Height, 1566

Individuals in Society Hürrem

Quiz for Individuals in Society LaunchPad

Global Viewpoints Mughal and French Views on Priorities for Monarchs

Quiz for Global Viewpoints LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Coffee Drinking

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence Katib Chelebi on Tobacco LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Thinking Like a HistorianForced Relocation of Armenians to Persia LaunchPad

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Documents from Sources for World Societies, Chapter 17 Introduction to the Documents

Analyzing the Evidence Rain, Steam and Speed –– the Great Western Railway

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Mapping the Past Continental Industrialization, ca. 1850

Global Viewpoints Indian Cotton Manufacturers

Quiz for Global Viewpoints LaunchPad

Analyzing the Evidence The Testimony of Young Mine Workers LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing the Evidence LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Hisorian Making the Industrialized Worker LaunchPad

Documents from Sources for World Societies, Chapter 23 Introduction to the Documents

Document 23-1: Thomas Robert Malthus, From an Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798 Quiz for Document 23-1 LaunchPadVIEWPOINTS: The Realities of ManufacturingDocument 23-2: Robert Owen, From Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System, 1815

VIEWPOINTS: Race and Power in South AfricaDocument 32-2: National Party of South Africa, The National Party’s Colour Policy, 1948 Quiz for Document 32-2 LaunchPadDocument 32-3: Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Speech to the Court, 1964 Quiz for Document 32-3 LaunchPadViewpoints Comparative Questions

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than twenty books, most recently The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds and Gender in History. She is the former Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History.

Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Patricia B. Ebrey (Ph.D., Columbia University), Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, specializes in China. She has published numerous journal articles and The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, as well as numerous monographs. In 2010 she won the Shimada Prize for outstanding work of East Asian Art History for AccumulatingCulture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong.

Roger B. Beck

Roger B. Beck (Ph.D., Indiana University) is Distinguished Professor of African and twentieth-century world history at Eastern Illinois University. His publications include The History of South Africa, a translation of P. J. van der Merwe's The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony, 1657-1842, and more than a hundred articles, book chapters, and reviews. He is a former treasurer and Executive Council member of the World History Association.

Jerry Davila

Jerry Dávila (Ph.D., Brown University) is Jorge Paulo Lemann professor of Brazilian History at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Dictatorship in South America; Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, winner of the Latin Studies Association Brazil Section Book prize; and of Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945. He has served as president of the Conference on Latin American History.

Clare Haru Crowston

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) teaches at the University of Illinois, where she is currently associate professor of history. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women's History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.

John P. McKay

John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.